This is a great essay:
L.L.M.s are what they eat
11.07.2025 16:58
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This is a great essay:
L.L.M.s are what they eat
Honestly sometimes I feel like the reason ppl don't just say "this book has no sex in it" is bc apparently sex is so scandalous that even the absence of sex has to be euphemized bc using the word "sex" at all is so forbidden and it drives me up the wall
I'm ace-spec and sex-ambivalent and sometimes I look for media that doesn't have sex in it and I haaate the word "clean" being applied to said media like can we please normalize a word for "no sexual content" that doesn't moralize sex as "dirty"π
Can we take whatever money is being paid to reactionary racist op-ed writers claiming straight white men are oppressed in publishing and give it to reviewers from marginalized backgrounds
Don't even get me started on how reviewing children's literature pays even less than reviewing for the adult marketπ«
We do need more reviews but unfortunately review publications pay dust like literally you can work a minimum wage job and earn more per hour compared to what you earn as a reviewer when you divide the flat fee they pay you by hours spent reading the book+writing the review.π₯Ή
I once went to the wrong place for my health appointment bc there were two addresses that were the same except for the zip code that were about 15 minutes away from each other π₯Ή
I feel like my sweetness tolerance/sweet spot varies a lot depending on the specific thing in question rather than being across the board bc there are certain things that are absolutely too sweet for the "not too sweet" crowd that I love and others where I'm like "okay this is too sweet"
I'm a spice lover but considering that the average spiciness level varies a lot across different Asian cuisines I'm not really sure why it's treated as a universal Asian taste marker
I hate bean sprouts for texture issues lol. I hate when they're mixed in with noodles.
3 Days left to donate! Currently at $1710 raised out of $2000. So so close. Packing all these prints to ship in real time. Thank you so much for getting it this far π Hoping to get the rest of the way real soon
The Fuzhounese version seems like it must be close to whatever Middle(?) Chinese word the Sino-Japanese niku came fromπ
Interesting that the written form is still θ though
For my final Taiwanese American Heritage Week post, I did a roundup of a bunch of recent and upcoming books by Taiwanese authors spanning age groups and genres and including some translated works from Taiwan. readingasiam.blog/2025/05/20/t...
Shenwei interviewed me last week for Taiwanese American Heritage Week! This is the first time someone has asked me about what went into creating the Cylian language on the page, a process which I was all too happy to nerd out about.
"The Cost of Convenience: Precarity in Taiwanese Franchise Markets" by @brianhioe.bsky.social
Second post for the Anti-Trans Tipping Point is live now! Journey with me as we explore how completely fucked we are on the policy front, featuring a whole slurry of numbers. I put a lot of charts in to make it easier to understand, I promise!
open.substack.com/pub/thetrans...
@workshops4gaza.bsky.social donates to the Sameer Project which does good work on the ground in Palestine
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Crips for Esims for Gaza does good connecting work
There is a game bundle you can buy Right Now to support them (for the next day plus)
itch.io/b/2965/crips...
For my final interview for Taiwanese American Heritage Week, I talked to karissachen.bsky.social about her debut novel Homeseeking, keeping the timeline straight, finding the right amount of description for a scene, the research rabbit holes she explored, and more. readingasiam.blog/2025/05/19/a...
For my eighth interview for Taiwanese American Heritage Week, I talked to Linda Cheng about her sapphic horror/thriller YA, Gorgeous Gruesome Faces, the appeal of the horror genre, the burden of writing "good representation," getting immersed in a scene, and more. readingasiam.blog/2025/05/18/a...
For my 7th interview for Taiwanese American Heritage Week, I talked to @hisiheyah.bsky.social about her middle grade fantasy graphic novel, Lu and Ren's Guide to Geozoology, representing her diaspora experience in fantasy, her real life animal adventures, and more. readingasiam.blog/2025/05/17/a...
Check out my latest Q&A, as part of a series for Taiwanese American Heritage Week during #AANHPIHeritageMonth:
For my sixth interview for Taiwanese American Heritage Week, I talked to Erica Lee Schlaikjer about her bilingual picturebook, Wild Greens, Beautiful Girl ιθε§ε¨, Indigenous Taiwanese representation, working with her cousin on the translation of the text, and more. readingasiam.blog/2025/05/16/a...
For my fifth interview for Taiwanese American Heritage Week, I talked to @booksbystefany.bsky.social about her debut YA novel, First Love Language, writing from personal experience, the 5 love languages, discovering new sides to yourself while writing, and more. readingasiam.blog/2025/05/15/a...